Many had compassion for harassed women everywhere and stern words for Bob Filner.

Not Filner’s alleged victims, his supporters.

Eight months ago, almost a quarter million people voted for Filner to become San Diego’s first Democratic mayor in 20 years. In the U-T’s latest poll of 700 San Diego adults, conducted Thursday and Friday, 67 percent of San Diegans said they want him to resign and 74 percent said they believe the allegations are true.

Friday at noon, the mayor read from a statement in which he admitted to intimidation and harassment of women over the course of many years. He then said he will enter an intensive two-week therapy program.

Who is left in Filner’s corner? By Friday evening, Marti Emerald and Myrtle Cole were the last two of nine San Diego City Council members who have not asked him to step down. At a meeting of the county’s Democratic Party central committee Thursday, held shortly after Filner’s latest four accusers stepped forward, 34 voted in favor of the mayor’s resignation, with six nays. (It is not known who those six were, because the vote was taken in a closed session.)

Filner’s supporters include a variety of allies who he has helped in the past — with legislation, by showing up at their events, championing their causes — as well as those who agree with his vision for the future. Others remain suspicious about the motives and allegiances of his accusers. Some have decades-old relationships with Filner and some have never met him. Then there are those who say the scandal was orchestrated by parties that want Filner out and propagated by a gullible and lazy (at best) or marionette (at worst) media. A few thousand are fans of pro-Filner Facebook pages, some of which sprouted since the scandal started.

People across these groups said they don’t want to risk a return to how things were before Filner won the mayor’s office.

“He really feels for the people. He thinks for us and feels for us. I can’t say enough about the good that we will lose should he have to step down,” said Inez González, who worked with him for two years in San Diego as the district director for Filner when he was in Congress.

She said she was not mistreated by Filner, and continues to support him because “he took on fights that no one else would take on. I think he would continue with this track record, and people are just putting in the trash can all his great work.”

González added, “I’m not being loyal to anybody. I’m being loyal to his ideas.”

Then there are those who view due process as an end in itself, regardless of their feelings for Filner, his potential as mayor and his past actions.

“To spew outrage without him having any due process is unethical. I think the media gets ahold of these stories and it’s blown out of proportion, and a person’s reputation is ruined before he’s had his due process,” said Tina Padilla, a vendor working at the Ocean Beach Farmer’s Market Thursday afternoon. “It’s more about the justice than it is about my caring for a person, or not caring.”